How to maintain Cuba’s protest momentum
In formulating a response to the recent protests in Cuba, the U.S. administration should listen to activists on the ground, argues Amalia Dache, an Afro-Cuban American associate professor at the… Read more »
Category: Democracy Digest
China’s ‘Long Game’ aims for global supremacy by 2049
Bearing Witness to China’s ‘Orwellian Dystopia’, by @bariweiss https://t.co/MIOvc1RedJ — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 30, 2021 American investors are asking whether China Inc. is still worth the risk following a… Read more »
Moldova’s ‘voice of freedom’: A new chance for democracy?
Moldova could be led for the first time by two women after President Maia Sandu on Friday appointed a close political partner Natalia Gavrilita as Prime Minister-designate, Balkan… Read more »
Regime fatigue in Russia? ‘Deep cracks in carefully managed system’
Russia’s leader faces a backlash from the generation that has lost out under his rule, notes analyst Natia Seskuria. Young people are becoming more politically active. After 21 years of Putin’s… Read more »
‘Brittle façade’ of Putin’s Russia limits authoritarian contagion?
Democracies have been bent out of shape by rising populism but autocrats are more likely to crack under pressure, as the brittle façade of Vladimir Putin’s Russia demonstrates, analyst Philip… Read more »
Is Cuba facing a watershed ‘1989 moment’?
The protesters pouring into streets across Cuba have a common rallying cry: “Patria y Vida,” or “Fatherland and Life.” The phrase comes from a hip-hop song released a few months ago… Read more »
Democracy Digest on sabbatical
Democracy Digest is on sabbatical for the near term.
‘In sickness and in health’: Covid-19 prompts global democracy slump
Emergency measures to curtail the coronavirus pandemic took tolls on democratic freedoms around the world last year, with setbacks in the West even as some Asian countries made progress, a… Read more »
Navalny’s ‘guerrilla political warfare’ boxes Putin in Catch-22
Experts say the weekend protests in Russia, mainly in support of arrested opposition leader Alexei Navalny but also attracting members of the public angry at corruption and injustices in Russia,… Read more »
Is liberal democratic order fit for purpose in the 21st century?
President Joe Biden may be obliged to accept that the days of US co-operation with China are waning and prepare to set about protecting the west’s democracy while there is… Read more »